social networks and information technology

The fourth quarter of 2013 found companies grappling to manage the transformation being brought on by cloud, mobile, analytics, and social technologies. Firms must now adapt to all this new technology… Read more »

Identity management solutions need to be able to be adaptive to change, and those responsible for them must consider cloud, mobile, social networks, and other complications during deployment. Read more »

The new economics of data warehousing provide attractive alternatives in both costs and benefits. While big data gets most of the attention, evolved data warehousing will play an important role for… Read more »

A new generation, the Millennials, is gaining a significant presence in today’s digital workplace. These young employees were born in the 1980s and later and were raised with ever-present mobile phones,… Read more »

It’s a stream of Twitter today. The company explains why “WikiLeaks” wasn’t trending: its algorithm favors velocity over popularity, though it uses both. Meanwhile, a Pew Research Center survey suggests fewer… Read more »

This Guardian interview with the head of Facebook engineering is interesting, and a little scary. If this is an accurate portrayal, it’s definitely a hacker culture at Facebook. Very small teams… Read more »

In the realm of might-have-beens, MySpace shows more promise than Friendster. But unlike some former web leaders, it’s still salvageable. MySpace shouldn’t try to challenge Facebook for social network leadership, but… Read more »

Amidst its iPod and Apple TV announcements yesterday, Apple revealed a new version of iTunes that embeds social networking functions under the “Ping” brand. Ping allows friend and band following and… Read more »